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Story Links Championship Central MESA, ARIZO. – The 2025 Summit League Men’s Golf Championship is scheduled to tee off April 27-29 at the Longbow Golf Course in Mesa, Ariz. This will be the first year for the Summit League to host the postseason tournament in the Grand Canyon State with all three rounds scheduled to start […]

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#SummitMGF Championship to begin Sunday

MESA, ARIZO. – The 2025 Summit League Men’s Golf Championship is scheduled to tee off April 27-29 at the Longbow Golf Course in Mesa, Ariz. This will be the first year for the Summit League to host the postseason tournament in the Grand Canyon State with all three rounds scheduled to start at 7 a.m. MST.

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Date: Sunday-Tuesday, April 27-29
Start times: All three rounds will tee off at 7 a.m. MST.
Location: Longbow Golf Course | Mesa, Ariz.
Par: 71
Yardage: 7,050
Host: The Summit League
Live Results: https://scoreboard.clippd.com/tournaments/237974/scoring/team

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Championship Seeding (First Round Starting Tee Times)

  1.  Oral Roberts (7:50 a.m. MST; No. 1 tee)
  2.  NDSU (7:50 a.m. MST; No. 1 tee)
  3.  St. Thomas (7:50 a.m. MST; No. 1 tee)
  4.  Denver (7:00 a.m. MST; No. 1 tee)
  5.  South Dakota (7:00 a.m. MST; No. 1 tee)
  6.  Kansas City (7:00 a.m. MST; No. 1 tee)
  7.  South Dakota State (7:50 a.m. MST; No. 10 tee)
  8.  Northern Colorado (7:50 a.m. MST; No. 10 tee)
  9. Omaha (7:50 a.m. MST; No. 10 tee)
  10. Weber State (7:00 a.m. MST; No. 10 tee)
  11. North Dakota (7:00 a.m. MST; No. 10 tee)

Championship Notes

  • The 2025 Men’s Golf Championship will be played in the Grand Canyon State with the 54-hole championship set for a par-71, 7,050-yard layout at the Longbow Golf Club.
  • Back-to-back champion Kansas City will look for the second straight three-peat among league champions after Denver won the 2019, 2021 and 2022 titles. The tournament was not held in 2020 due to Covid.
  • The Roos are led by freshman Mason Haley, who earned all-league first team honors and a spot on the all-freshman team after posting a 72.5 stroke average.  
  • Oral Roberts earned the top seed in this year’s championship after owning the top Clippd team ranking among the 11 participants in this year’s event.
  • South Dakota owns the top stroke average in the league entering the championship at 289.3 through nine regular season events. South Dakota won the La Tour Intercollegiate under the direction of first-year head coach Chad Green.
  • The top returner for the Coyotes is graduate student Max Schmidtke, who currently owns the second-best stroke average in the league at 72.1. Schmidtke heads into the championship as the only player with a pair of top-five finishes to his credit this season.
  • Fellow Coyote Joe Rohlwing also owns a top-five stroke average among league players, ranking fourth with a 72.5 clip.
  • South Dakota State follows close behind with a 292.2 stroke average in 10 tournaments. The Jackrabbits earned a tournament title during the regular season by winning their own invitational played at the Boulder Creek Golf Club in Nevada.
  • SDSU is led by senior Ty Kretz, who owned the league’s top stroke average at 71.9.
  • Denver ranked third with a 292.4 stroke average through nine events and are coming off a runner-up finish at UCSB Gaucho Invite with a score of 862(-2). Denver secured four top-five finishes as a team under second-year head coach Gary Bissell.
  • Leading the Pios efforts this season was Willis Panzarello, who was fifth among league golfers with a stroke average of with 72.9. His 65 in the second round of the Bank Bell “Pay It Forward” Intercollegiate matched the low round of the regular season by a Summit League golfer. 
  • SDSU’s Bryson Mercier also posted a 65 (-7) in the second round of the Jackrabbit Invitational.
  • NDSU was led by senior Ian Simonich and junior Rylin Petry, who led league golfers with four top-10 finishes after posting a 72.97 stroke average and sharing the league lead with 17 rounds at par or better. 
  • Simonich earned a two top-five finishes was one of two Summit golfers to win an individual title, taking medalist honors at the Tommie Invitational.
  • The Tommies had two players in the league’s top 10 of scoring average as both Owen Rexing (6th; 72.95) and Matthew Armstrong (9th; 73.04) landed on the all-league second team. Armstrong joined Simonich with an individual title, taking first place at the SeattleU Redhawk Invitational. The Tommies also won the program’s first team title at the Division I level during the event in the Pacific Northwest.
  • Omaha is led by junior Nolan Johnson, who had a pair of top-10 finishes during the season, and, as a team, the Mavericks secured three top-five finishes with a stroke average of 296.33.
  • North Dakota finished up the regular season with a third-place finish at the WIU Intercollegiate.
  • Northern Colorado and Weber State will make their Summit League Championship debuts after finishing their first seasons as league affiliate members. UNC was sixth with a 294.6 stroke average in nine tournaments, while Weber State finished with a 296.4 and won the Bill Cullum Invitational back in the fall.
  • Freshman Matthew Wilson turned in three top-10 finishes — a feat only accomplished by three other league golfers during the regular season.

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Hawaii women’s water polo team embarks for NCAA Tournament

HONOLULU — Once was enough. That’s all the time that Hawaii water polo coach James Robinson dispensed to last year’s NCAA Tournament semifinal loss to California, in which the Rainbow Wahine scored only twice on 17 on power-play opportunities in a 9-6 outcome. That hard-to-believe statistic, if it came up this week, won’t be mentioned […]

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HONOLULU — Once was enough.

That’s all the time that Hawaii water polo coach James Robinson dispensed to last year’s NCAA Tournament semifinal loss to California, in which the Rainbow Wahine scored only twice on 17 on power-play opportunities in a 9-6 outcome.

That hard-to-believe statistic, if it came up this week, won’t be mentioned again before the teams rematch in the NCAA quarterfinals in Indianapolis, Ind.

“We spoke about our last meeting with Cal last year, one time,” Robinson, the Big West Coach of the Year in his first season leading the program, said Monday moments before the team embarked from the Duke Kahanamoku Aquatic Complex for the airport. “It was really just where we fell short. Haven’t touched a whole lot on when we played them earlier this year. … It’s (about) being present right here, right now.”

Big West champion UH (21-4), the fourth seed in the nine-team field, faces MPSF semifinalist Cal (19-5) at 8 a.m. Hawaii time in a game to be livestreamed on NCAA.com. The Wahine were to fly out Monday for Chicago and catch a short connecting flight to Indianapolis.

BWC Player of the Year Bernadette Doyle has traveled long distances to get from her homeland of New Zealand to compete at UH and around the world for her nation, but this will be the senior’s longest career road trip from the islands to the mainland.

Robinson was confident his group would settle in quickly at IUPUI’s IU Natatorium, the largest indoor aquatic facility in the U.S. with a capacity of 4,700.

UH, which is coming off its first back-to-back conference tournament championships, is wary of Cal’s up-tempo attack in the Manoa program’s ninth all-time NCAA appearance. The Wahine edged the Golden Bears, 12-11, in a meeting in Irvine, Calif., in March.

For nonconference foes, the two programs are about as familiar as you can get, having gone 3-3 against each other over the last six seasons.

Robinson was around at UH as an assistant to Maureen Cole for the last two before taking over as her chosen successor this season.

“They have a lot of talent. They’re deep,” Robinson said of Cal, coached by former UH assistant Coralie Simmons. “I think they play the game at a very fast pace, so that’s difficult to keep up with over the course of four quarters. What they do is very effective. They push transition. Put a lot of pressure on you, so it is nice that our team has some experience against them. It’s not going to be such a surprise, you hope, at this time of the year.”

UH plays a decidedly more deliberate style. Doyle said it will be about finding a balance between counterattacking and not falling into the Bears’ preferred pace.

“We really need to go out there wanting to attack,” Doyle said. “I think we saw even in the Long Beach (Big West championship) game, that when we stopped attacking, our defense started to get worse. So we need to make sure that, obviously, we need to go out there firing, but being also patient with our attack.”

Robinson emphasized that it will take everyone to advance in the tournament, including his reserves. But he allowed that the 5-foot-6 Doyle, with her capacity to affect the game on either end as a disruptive defensive player and lethal counterattacker, is at the top of the list.

Doyle has 53 goals, 38 assists, 51 steals and 13 field blocks on the season.

“For her to be able to play defense like she’s been playing all season is going to be a massive part,” Robinson said. “Pushing in transition, pushing pace. Obviously, that’s where she is really, really effective, so she’s gonna have to do that, but that’s gonna take her and the rest of the team as well.”

Doyle is accompanied by her younger sister Gabrielle, who was named to the BWC All-Freshman team.

“Just go out there and give it your all and be fearless,” Bernadette Doyle said of what she’d advise Gabrielle. “Take your moments and yeah, give it everything you’ve got.”

Brian McInnis covers the state’s sports scene for Spectrum News Hawaii. He can be reached at brian.mcinnis@charter.com.



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5 Hawaii men’s volleyball players receive All-America honors

A haul of awards awaited the Hawaii men’s volleyball team when it arrived in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday afternoon. The American Volleyball Coaches Association bestowed postseason honors on five Rainbow Warriors — hitter Adrien Roure and setter Tread Rosenthal made the first team, opposite Kristian Titriyski was named a second-teamer, and middle Kurt Nusterer and […]

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A haul of awards awaited the Hawaii men’s volleyball team when it arrived in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday afternoon.

The American Volleyball Coaches Association bestowed postseason honors on five Rainbow Warriors — hitter Adrien Roure and setter Tread Rosenthal made the first team, opposite Kristian Titriyski was named a second-teamer, and middle Kurt Nusterer and libero ‘Eleu Choy were named honorable mentions.

UH (26-5) flew commercial overnight Sunday to Phoenix and caught a connection to Columbus on Monday morning ahead of their NCAA Tournament quarterfinal against Penn State (15-15) at Ohio State’s Covelli Center on Thursday.

UH’s five total AVCA award recipients tied for second-most in program history. UH got six in 2023.

“Great to see the guys get recognized for their performance,” coach Charlie Wade said in a video from Columbus distributed by UH. “Super proud of guys like Kurt and ‘Eleu, (former) walk-ons that have literally become some of the best players in the country. Tread, Adrien and Kristian have been dominant since the day they stepped foot on the court. Nice to see some recognition.”

Rosenthal upgraded his showing from honorable mention as a true freshman last season. The Austin, Texas, native, was one of three setters on the first team along with Long Beach State’s Moni Nikolov and UCLA’s Andrew Rowan. He has guided the nation’s fifth-most efficient offense (.343) and is third in assists per set (10.65).

“It’s a big honor,” Rosenthal said in UH’s video. “Honestly, for me, it’s more exciting to see the other guys make it, because I think every other guy is a new guy to get to All-American status. It’s really good to just see a whole team effort of really good players.”

Roure, of Lyon, France, leads UH in double-digit-kill matches with 20 in 30 starts. The Big West tournament MVP was one of two freshmen on the first team.

“I was actually surprised,” Roure said. “I was hoping to make it to maybe second team, but first team, I feel really grateful. Especially because there’s only two freshmen on the 12-player (team). So, really blessed.”

Wade described Titriyski, who has been out for a month with an ankle injury, as “day to day” as the team left for the road from the Stan Sheriff Center on Sunday night, but noted the Bulgarian was a full practice participant on Friday.

Titriyski led UH in kills (4.24), points (5.50) and aces (0.45) per set before he got hurt.

Nusterer, of Indianapolis, Ind., expects to have considerable family and friend support in Columbus. He led UH in blocks per set at 1.02.

Choy, a Farrington High graduate of the Waialae area, leads UH with 1.68 digs per set and is the only player to have started all 31 matches.

LBSU’s Nikolov was named AVCA Newcomer of the Year. The AVCA’s remaining capital awards — player of the year, coach of the year, assistant coach of the year — will be announced in the coming days.

Brian McInnis covers the state’s sports scene for Spectrum News Hawaii. He can be reached at brian.mcinnis@charter.com.



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Beach volleyball ends season at NCAA championship quarterfinals

On Saturday, No. 6 seed Cal Poly stunned No. 3 seed Stanford with a 3-1 upset to claim the spot in the NCAA Championship semifinals. After splitting the opening two matches, the Mustangs pulled away from the Cardinal with dominant straight-set wins on courts four and five, taking all but one set by four or […]

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On Saturday, No. 6 seed Cal Poly stunned No. 3 seed Stanford with a 3-1 upset to claim the spot in the NCAA Championship semifinals. After splitting the opening two matches, the Mustangs pulled away from the Cardinal with dominant straight-set wins on courts four and five, taking all but one set by four or more points.

Just a day earlier, the Cardinal opened its fifth NCAA Championship appearance in Gulf Shores, Ala. with a 3-0 sweep over No. 14 seed Boise State. Stanford entered the tournament riding the momentum of earning its first-ever conference title, where the team defeated powerhouses UCLA and USC to win the highly-competitive MPSF Championship. Of the 16 teams in the NCAA field, four came from the MPSF conference. 

Stanford’s loss to Cal Poly wasn’t the only surprise of the NCAA Championships. No. 4 seed LMU also upset top-seeded UCLA in the semifinals to advance to the final against No. 2 seed TCU. The Horned Frogs went on to win 3-2, becoming the first school in history other than USC and UCLA to capture the NCAA title.

Last season, Stanford also entered the tournament as the No. 3 seed but fell to No. 11 seed LSU in the quarterfinals. Although history repeated itself, the Cardinal’s 2025 campaign was still one to remember. Finishing 32-9, Stanford matched the program record for most wins in a single season and tied its highest-ever national tournament seed – both achievements first set last year.

This season also saw historic individual milestones. Sophomore Ruby Sorra and senior Taylor Wilson, Stanford’s ones pair at the NCAA championship, became the winningest duo in program history with 43 career wins together. Junior Kelly Belardi added another win to her individual career total over the weekend, reinforcing her position as Stanford’s third-most winningest player with 87 career victories.

The Cardinal fielded one of the youngest lineups at NCAA Championships, featuring true freshmen Avery Jackson, Charlotta Bell and Logan Tusher while maintaining a spot within the tournament’s top seeds. Of the ten who competed in Gulf Shores, eight are set to return next season, poised to serve up another shot at the national title.



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Chillicothe, Unioto and Westfall seeds for the tournament

Chillicothe is the highest seed of the local teams in Region 5, Division II boys volleyball, according to the regional tournament draw that was released May 4. More: Softball tournament: Chillicothe lands No. 1 seed. Will they go the farthest? The Cavaliers are the No. 3 seed and will host the winner of No. 6 […]

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Chillicothe is the highest seed of the local teams in Region 5, Division II boys volleyball, according to the regional tournament draw that was released May 4.

The Cavaliers are the No. 3 seed and will host the winner of No. 6 Dayton Archbishop Carroll/No. 14 Columbus Independence at 6 p.m. May 13.

Unioto was the No. 9 seed and will host No. 11 Columbus Northland at 6 p.m. May 13.

Westfall is the No. 18 seed and will travel to take on Columbus Bishop Watterson at 6 p.m. May 13.



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Long Beach Olympics? LA Games to put spotlight on vibrant coastal city

LONG BEACH – The Los Angeles Olympics in 2028 are set to showcase Long Beach, the vibrant coastal city in south-eastern Los Angeles County with a rich sports and cultural history, that will host 11 events. Beach volleyball, water polo, sailing and sport climbing are among the popular competitions that will take place in “the […]

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The Los Angeles Olympics in 2028 are set to showcase Long Beach, the vibrant coastal city in south-eastern Los Angeles County with a rich sports and cultural history, that will host 11 events.

Beach volleyball, water polo, sailing and sport climbing are among the popular competitions that will take place in “the LBC” and Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson said the city is ready for its moment in the global spotlight.

“Long Beach is a great American city, and many folks may not know about it,” he said.

“It’s an opportunity to really come out of the shadows a bit. We’re a top-40 city in the United States by population. We’re larger than Miami. We’re larger than St. Louis and New Orleans.

“We have a great, iconic coastline… and the beautiful nine miles of California coast.”

Long Beach is likely familiar to music lovers around the world due to its frequent mention in the songs of hip-hop legend and Team USA hype man Snoop Dogg.

The city has also punched above its weight when it comes to producing sports stars.

Tennis icon Billie Jean King, three-time Olympic beach volleyball champion Misty May-Treanor and 2012 Olympic gold medalist and NBA star Russell Westbrook all hail from the city.

Long Beach’s Woodrow Wilson High School has had an alumni represented in every Summer Games the US has participated in since 1952. Long Beach State University, meanwhile, has consistently churned out Olympic volleyball, swimming and water polo standouts.

The 2028 Games will mark the third time Long Beach has played a part in an Olympics.

Marine Stadium was originally built to stage rowing events at the 1932 Games and will do so again nearly a century later with rowing and canoe sprint taking place at the first-ever manmade rowing course.

Sailing will be held off Belmont Veterans Memorial Pier in Belmont Shore as the city’s waterfront once again hosts the event after also doing so in 1984, the last time LA hosted the Games.

Hosting large-scale events is nothing new to the city, Richardson added.

The Long Beach Grand Prix, the city’s beloved “200-mile-per-hour beach party”, drew over 200,000 attendees for its 50th anniversary in April in the shadow of the Long Beach Convention Centre and Long Beach Arena, which will both be utilised in 2028.

The 60th edition of the popular Congressional Cup regatta was held off Veteran Memorial Pier last weekend in Long Beach’s signature sea breeze.

“These are iconic, historic, world-class venues, and we can’t wait to put them on display for the entire world,” Richardson said.

Olympic organisers LA28 have clustered venues together across the sprawling Los Angeles region and Richardson added that fans will have options when it comes to how they move between the six Olympic venues in Long Beach.

“You can Circuit,” he said, referring to the city’s free electric vehicle service.

“Or walk or scooter or bike across all the venues on our nine miles of coastline.

“And while they’re there, they’ll see the investments that we made into our beach, into our coastline, some of the best beach concessions in America where you can have a hot dog or you can have a tomahawk steak and a martini.

“That’s the experience that we’ve put together and developed here in Long Beach, and we can’t wait to show it to the world.” REUTERS

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Jim Montgomery reacts to Blues’ Game 7 collapse – 98.5 The Sports Hub

The St. Louis Blues – led by former Boston Bruins head coach Jim Montgomery – held a 3-1 lead inside of the final two minutes of play in Game 7 against the Winnipeg Jets. They found themselves later eliminated from contention in the Stanley Cup Playoffs after choking away said lead and losing to the […]

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The St. Louis Blues – led by former Boston Bruins head coach Jim Montgomery – held a 3-1 lead inside of the final two minutes of play in Game 7 against the Winnipeg Jets. They found themselves later eliminated from contention in the Stanley Cup Playoffs after choking away said lead and losing to the Jets in double-overtime.

“The puck luck was incredible,” said Montgomery after the game. The Blues were just 1.6 seconds away from securing the victory and advancing to the second round. The loss marks another blown lead in the third period of a Game 7 scenario by a Montgomery-coached team.

Overall, Montgomery did a good job at turning the Blues’ season around. They finished with a 44-30-8 record (96 points), that was largely due to their new coach, who was responsible for the 35-18-7 record (77 points) after he took over. Nonetheless, the narrative for Montgomery, as a good regular season coach who can’t get the job done in the playoffs, remains the same.

Obviously, the job he did in St. Louis will dispel some of the blame he was given for the Bruins’ season – especially with the Bruins finishing at the bottom of the league. But, until one of his teams finds actual playoff success, he will still be viewed as an underachiever.

Luke Graham is a digital sports content co-op for 98.5 the Sports Hub. He is currently a sophomore at Northeastern University studying communications and media studies. Read all his articles here, and follow him on X @LukeGraham05.



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